Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-15
AN OLD SHIRT AND THREE wRIN-
killed PALSIES.


A perplexed correspondent of the New
York Herald asks that paper a few ques-
lions, which are worthy Of reproduction,
as representing what the average citizen is
asking himself He says:
Can you explain this st. Louis muddle
have supposed that the Republicans went
into the war because they were determined
that all Americans should constitute one
people and one nation. And now when
that desirable result has been reached they
seem equally determined to keep the North
and South apart What in the name OF
common sense does this mean?
The Herald says: well, it means poll
ties, and very poor politics; that is all.
There is no common sense in it, much less
is there any patriotism, but rs a piece Of
demagogic strategy it has its value to the
Republican leaders. You need not be
alarmed about it. 1t has no significance
and will produce no results. The people
already see that it is. simply n game Of
bluh, whose constituent elements consist
in equal parts of very lOud talking, three
little palsies, bloody shirt, which has at
last outlived its usefulness, and few
threats of personal violence because the
President insists that the cruel war is
over"
A game of bluff on the part of the Re-
publican leaders; that is what it is and the
ridiculous picture is presented Of the &. o.
p. budding neryOusly over hand contain
ing not a single face card and only one
ragged old shirt, tray spot" OF three lit
tie palsies and the rest wind. On the
other side the Democratic party holds this
royal flush: 4 stable, an honest, an eco
nOmical and = peacvable government.
The national COACH says the Herald,
''is being driven without the financial iolts
OF the last twenty years, aud the mud
holes are carefully avoided. Republicans
like BLAINE, SHERMAN and FORAKER see
this, and are almost frantic, In lisa they
borrowed the trumpet of GABRIEL and
blew a blast throughout the land to the
effect that if q Democratic cOachmsn was
allowed TO handle toe reins there would be
in the near future the most awful upset
and the most terrible aggregation of bruises
and broken bones and other disasters that
the human mind could conceive. Imagine
their horror, therefore, when they awoke
- g..k 49, ths G,,ask -, ~,
country are DemOcrats-that the people
are convinced Of this fact, and therefore
relegated the Republicans to reserved seats
on the inside for the indefinite future"
In other words after a twenty years tide
behind drivers who stood in" with the
road agents along the highway the Ameri-
can people are beginning to ride uphill
with feeling of security and are satisfied.
''They invited the Republican leaders to
step down, /" continues the Herald, simply
because their trading propensities were too
fully developed. They discovered that
public office, which should be a public
trust, was priced as a bartender prizes q
lemon-for the Juice that can be got out of
it; that there were numerous political
rings which were rObbing the people Of the
national domain. using the Pension Office
to buy votes with, and spending scores Of
millions on navy which was somehow all
in your eye In 3 word, the people were
tired, and in November, 1884, they said
30.
''But now, on the eve of another Presi-
Dental election, if the Republicans have